He was definitely an engaging teacher and as you mentioned his experiments influence a lot of people including including you. [inaudible] this is a bit of a followon and im still trying to formulate what is probably a very elementary question but you talk about all the research you did and obviously he mixes in real historical characters with his primary fictional characte characters. Was he primarily using fiction to illuminate history and historical forces or using history to illuminate human nature . Yes and yes. [laughter] i mean thats a huge question. One of the criticisms that this book has received is that tolstoy intentionally distort historical facts for his own purposes so for instance he creates in the character could to save us a far more salt of the earth kind of character than he actually was. He was apparently much more widely, much more questionable in terms of his morals so historians have accused the full story of using history and distorting it for his own ends. I do
Of a case of obstruction of justice. The president is undergoing scrutiny after he sent out a tweet offering a new reason behind why he fired Michael Flynn. The president tweeting this yesterday. I had to fire general flynn because he lied to the Vice President and the fbi. Today the white house is playing damage control downplaying that tweet saying it was written by an attorney for the president. Lets begin with the news that a Senate Investigation is developing a case on obstruction of justice against the president of the United States. Shimone what else did feinstein say about this case being built . For her it was a point to make and one of the things she said its been difficult to get at the truth in this investigation. She and members of her committee have been asking for documents from Donald Trump Trump jr. , from Jared Kushner and her point today was also to say that it appears at least on the special counsel side that theyre building out perhaps a case for some kind of obstr
The special election is important. It is all fake news, it is funny stuff. It didnt happen. Fake news. Fake news. Jillian donald trump breaking the internet with his fake news awards. Fox and friends first continues right now. I never heard this song. I cant wait to see this. You are watching fox and friends first on thursday. Thank you for starting the day with us. Straight to our top stories, deal or no deal . The Government Shutdown just one day away, lawmakers under mounting pressure to deliver a deal. Jillian the lastditch efforts, good morning. That deadline is tomorrow, the other is daca which congress hasnt so much 50 find a solution for. Leading democrats wont support any spending bill to give the government open if it doesnt address the dreamers and at this point the white house believes it is likely lawmakers will reach a deal before the deadline meaning republicans will be on their own to avoid a Government Shutdown and that is why the gop is accusing democrats of playing p
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